WSJ to Interview Obama at 3 P.M. Tuesday

President Barack Obama is set to speak at 3 p.m. Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council meeting in Washington, remarks that come amid continued problems with his health-care rollout and an increasingly cloudy outlook for his second term. The event will be live streamed publicly in this blog post and on the front page of WSJ.com.

Mr. Obama is expected to deliver brief remarks, followed by an on-stage interview with Gerald F. Seib, the Journal’s Washington bureau chief.

President Obama faces a series of challenges less than a year into his second term, ranging from the uncertain U.S. economy to the Syrian civil war and Iran nuclear talks.

But his main headache remains the unsteady rollout of the health-care law. Last week, Mr. Obama was forced to shift gears on his landmark law, saying that insurers can extend by one year those policies they had canceled for failing to meet the law’s requirements. This move came after an uproar over some Americans receiving cancellation notices from their insurers, despite the president’s oft-repeated line that if you like your insurance, you can keep it. The cancellation blowout came on the heels of broad problems with the HealthCare.gov website, the federal health-insurance portal.

The difficulties have weighed on Mr. Obama’s standing with the public. Only 41% of Americans viewed Mr. Obama in a positive light in a late October Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, with 45% holding a negative impression of him. That marked Mr. Obama’s all-time low as president.

Mr. Obama is in his second term pressing for an immigration overhaul, expanded access to early-childhood education and a higher minimum wage. But all these goals are drawing resistance from congressional Republicans, and if the public sours on him, the job is that much more difficult.

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